From 8437f5089f2fac85a249c4368c2ea1415955d8b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey M Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 23:50:02 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] [README.md] Add long lines policy to coding conventions --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bdc5faeec..901595444 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1192,6 +1192,25 @@ title = self._search_regex( webpage, 'title', group='title') ``` +### Long lines policy + +There is a soft limit to keep lines of code under 80 characters long. This means it should be respected if possible and if it does not make readability and code maintenance worse. + +For example, you should **never** split long string literals like URLs or some other often copied entities over multiple lines to fit this limit: + +Correct: + +```python +'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' +``` + +Incorrect: + +```python +'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=' +'PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' +``` + ### Use safe conversion functions Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py): `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well. -- 2.39.5